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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2020-f25793aac4 Critical: WebKitGTK2 Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 24, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest WebKitGTK update for Fedora offers key enhancements, new APIs for better performance, and essential bug fixes for improved stability and rendering.
Update to WebKitGTK 2.28.0

Summary

WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the

GTK platform.

This package contains WebKit2 based WebKitGTK for GTK 3.

Update to WebKitGTK 2.28.0. * Add API to enable Process Swap on (Cross-site)

Navigation. * Add user messages API for the communication with the web

extension. * Add support for same-site cookies. * Service workers are enabled

by default. * Add support for Pointer Lock API. * Add flatpak sandbox support.

* Make ondemand hardware acceleration policy never leave accelerated compositing

mode. * Always use a light theme for rendering form controls. * Add about:gpu

to show information about the graphics stack. * CVE fixes: CVE-2020-10018

* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-6

- BuildRequires: rubygem-json. Not plural. Sigh.

* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-5

- Remove BuildRequires: rubygems-json, should not have been added in F31

* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-4

- Attempt rebuild. Koji seems flaky today?

* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-3

- BuildRequires: rubygems-json

* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-2

- Rebuild with koji hopefully not broken this time?

* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-1

- Update to 2.28.0

[ 1 ] Bug #1811722 - CVE-2020-10018 webkit2gtk3: webkitgtk: Denial of service issue in accessibility/AXObjectCache.cpp [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811722

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-f25793aac4' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 2.28.0
Release: 6.fc31
Summary: GTK Web content engine library

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